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The name Gil Puyat has gone viral after a marketing campaign supposedly for sleep-inducing melatonin pills had workers placing the words " Gil Tulog Ave. " over Gil Puyat Avenue street signs on the road that connects EDSA in Makati to Jose W. Diokno Boulevard in Pasay.Makati Mayor Abby Binay has since ordered the Gil Tulog signs taken down and supplements firm Wellspring has apologized for the campaign.
"Gil Puyat’s renown for business acumen and foresight in managing the family business caught the eye of the late President Manuel L. Quezon. At the time, the country was predominantly agricultural in activity and the President was advocating industrialization," his Senate profile read."Quezon named the young Puyat as dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of the Philippines when he was only 33.
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